J.O.Hambro Investment Management has rebranded itself as Waverton Investment Management today following the management buy-out from Credit Suisse.
The firm, which is 37.5% employee-owned, hopes the name change will help reduce confusion with a separate firm founded by the Hambro family, J O Hambro Capital Management. Waverton director Mark Barrington said: "It is a new chapter in terms of our name and it is a good marker in terms of our ownership of the business and our intent to grow our business. It is a definite line in the sand. He stressed the structure of the business remains the same: "We are moving forward as an ownership business, but it is also a reference to our heritage which has made us what we are." The possibil...
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